German Intelligence Experts: 9-11 is Hollywood Deception
December 12, 2001

European intelligence experts dismiss the Bush "war on
terrorism" as deception and reveal the Realpolitik behind the
bombing of Afghanistan.

BERLIN - In Germany, where war plans for Afghanistan were
already being discussed in July 2001 and where several of the
"Arab hijackers" lived and studied, intelligence experts say the
terror attacks of Sept. 11 could not have been carried out
without the support of a state secret service.

Eckehardt Werthebach, former president of Germany's domestic
intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, told this reporter that
"the deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" behind
the attacks would have needed "years of planning." Such a
sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, would require the
"fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something
not found in a "loose group" of terrorists like the one
allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg. Many
people would have been involved in the planning of such an
operation and Werthebach pointed to the absence of leaks as
further indication that the attacks were "state organized
actions."

Andreas von Bülow served on the parliamentary commission which
oversees the three branches of the German secret service while a
member of the Bundestag (German parliament) from 1969 to 1994,
and wrote a book Im Namen des Staates (In the Name of the State)
on the criminal activities of secret services, including the
CIA. In an interview with the author, Von Bülow said that he
believes that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, is
behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks. These attacks, he said, were
carried out to turn public opinion against the Arabs and boost
military and security spending.

"You don't get the higher echelons," von Bülow said, referring
to the "architectural structure" which masterminds such terror
attacks. At this level, he said, the organization doing the
planning, such as Mossad, is primarily interested in affecting
public opinion. The architectural level planners use corrupt
"guns for hire" such as Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist who
von Bülow called "an instrument of Mossad," high-ranking Stasi
(former East German secret service) operatives, or Libyan agents
who organize terror attacks using dedicated people, for example
Palestinian and Arab "freedom fighters."

The terrorists who actually commit the crimes are what von Bülow
calls "the working level," such as the 19 Arabs who allegedly
hijacked the planes on Sept. 11. "The working level is part of
the deception," he said. "Ninety-five percent of the work of the
intelligence agencies around the world is deception and
disinformation," von Bülow said, which is widely propagated in
the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events.
"Journalists don't even raise the simplest questions," he said,
adding, "those who differ are labeled as crazy."

Both Werthebach and von Bülow said the lack of an open and
official investigation, like congressional hearings, into the
events of Sept. 11 was incomprehensible.

Horst Ehmke, who coordinated the German secret services directly
under German Prime Minister Willi Brandt in the 70s, predicted a
similar terrorist attack in his novel, Torches of Heaven,
published last year, in which Turkish terrorists crash hijacked
planes into Berlin. Although Ehmke had long expected
"fundamentalist attacks" and when he saw the televised images
from Sept.11, he said it looked like a "Hollywood production."

"Terrorists could not have carried out such an operation with
four hijacked planes without the support of a secret service,"
Ehmke said, although he did not want to point to any particular
agency. "The most important thing in the struggle against
terrorists, who are abusing religion, is the battle for the soul
of the people and the nations," Ehmke said. "If this isn't
resolved successfully, the 21st century could be bloodier than
the last."

A former Stasi agent who had warned the German secret service of
terror attacks in America between Sept. 10-20 said that a high
ranking Stasi chief named Jürgen Rogalla, who is "an airplane
terror specialist," was probably involved in the attacks along
with Abu Nidal. Both Nidal and Rogalla work with the Mossad, the
former agent told me. Nidal, was said to be in Baghdad, and is a
"leading officer for some Mossad agents."

The agent said that Nidal was "involved directly" in the events
of 9-11 in preparation for a larger attack on the United States,
which is part of "an old plan," the agent said. Based on prior
knowledge of this plan, the agent said that more attacks are
imminent and that aircraft carriers may be targeted. Rogalla was
responsible for "turning NATO men" to spy for the East. One of
the East's NATO spies, Reiner Rupp, known as "Topaz," provided
Stasi and the Russians with the organization's highest secrets
until he was discovered in 1993 by the BND, the German
intelligence agency.

TERROR INVESTIGATION BLOCKED

Under the influence of U.S. oil companies, the Bush
administration blocked Secret Service investigations on
terrorism, while it bargained with the Taliban to turn over
Osama Bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and
economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim.

In a recently published book, Bin Laden, la Verite Interdite
(Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth), the authors, Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, reveal that the FBI's deputy
director John O'Neill resigned in July to protest official
obstruction of his investigation of terrorism.

O'Neill had been in charge of national security in New York.
While with the FBI, O'Neill led an investigation of Osama Bin
Laden and had forecast the possibility of an organized attack by
terrorists operating from within the country. O'Neill had
investigated the USS Cole bombing in Yemen, the bombings of U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing. In 1995, FBI agents working under O'Neill captured
Ramzi Yousef, a suspected lieutenant of Bin Laden, who was among
those convicted for the World Trade Center bombing.

O'Neill was considered a top-notch investigator and was known
for his pugnacity. He was barred by U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Barbara Bodine from that country. That dispute reportedly
involved a struggle between the State Department, which sought
to preserve relations with Yemen, and the FBI, represented by
O'Neill, who wanted access to Yemeni suspects.

O'Neill, 49, was hired as chief of security at the World Trade
Center following a 25-year career with the FBI and died on Sept.
11, the first day of his new job. O'Neill reportedly died after
re-entering the building to assist others.

Brisard said O'Neill told them that "the main obstacles to
investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests
and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it."

Bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American
military strikes against them two months before the terrorist
assaults on New York and Wash ington, according to the Guardian
(U.K.). The warnings to the Taliban originated at a four-day
meeting of senior Americans, Russians, Iranians and Pakistanis
at a hotel in Berlin in mid-July 2001. The meetings took place
under the arbitration of Francesc Vendrell, personal
representative of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to discuss
the situation in Afghanistan.

The three Americans at the Berlin meeting were Tom Simons,
former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Karl "Rick" Inderfurth, a
former assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, and
Lee Coldren, who headed the office of Pakistan, Afghan and
Bangladesh affairs in the State Department until 1997. There
were other meetings arranged by Vendrell in which
"representatives of the U.S. government and Russia, and the six
countries that border with Afghanistan were present," according
to the French authors. "Sometimes, representatives of the
Taliban also sat around the table."

The Berlin conference was the third meeting since November 2000
arranged by Vendrell. As a UN meeting, its official agenda was
supposedly confined to trying to find a negotiated solution to
the civil war in Afghanistan, ending terrorism and heroin
trafficking, and discussing humanitarian aid.

CARPET OF GOLD - OR BOMBS

The U.S. government's primary objective in Afghanistan was to
consolidate the position of the Taliban regime in order to
obtain access to the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia, the
French authors wrote. Until August, the U.S. government saw the
Taliban regime "as a source of stability in Central Asia that
would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central
Asia," from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and
Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian
Ocean, they said.

"The oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled
by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that," the
book says. When the Taliban refused to accept U.S. conditions,
"this rationale of energy security changed into a military one."

"The Americans indicated to us that in case the Taliban does not
behave and in case Pakistan also doesn't help us to influence
the Taliban, then the United States would be left with no option
but to take an overt action against Afghanistan," said Niaz Naik,
a former foreign minister of Pakistan, who attended the
meetings. During the "6 plus 2" meeting in Berlin in July, the
discussions turned around "the formation of a government of
national unity. If the Taliban had accepted this coalition, they
would have immediately received international economic aid,"
Naik said on French television. "And the pipe lines from
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would have come," he added.

Naik also claimed that Tom Simons, the U.S. representative at
these meetings, openly threatened the Taliban and Pakistan.
"Simons said, 'either the Taliban behave as they ought to, or
Pakistan convinces them to do so, or we will use another
option.' The words Simons used were 'a military operation,'"
Naik said. "At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S.
representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer
of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs,' "
Brisard said in an interview in Paris.

According to the book, the Bush government began to negotiate
with the Taliban in February, soon after coming into power. U.S.
and Taliban diplomatic representatives met several times in
Washington, Berlin and Islamabad. To polish their image in the
United States, the Taliban even employed a U.S. expert on public
relations, Laila Helms. The authors claim that Helms is also an
expert in the works of U.S. secret services, as her uncle,
Richard Helms, is a former director of the CIA.